The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-03
Self-Made Women.

think, about the only woman in that profession
in the city. Dentistry and medicine are in some
ways closely allied, but there are hundreds of
women in the former to one who is attracted to
the latter. Miss Neymann graduated from the
Philadelphia College Of Dentistry year ago or
Whereabouts, and is mailing a satisfactory begin
ming in the business le has chosen She re-
ports, when one questions her of her success q
cordial greeting from her brothers IN the pro-
fession, though it is permissible to wonder IL
her piQuant face and trim figure have not some
thing to do with the welcome she receives.
Miss Neymauns surroundings abate good deal
of the terror that waits on the footsteps Of the
dentist, chilling the blood of his prospective VIC
TINS, for all is sunny, homelike and feminine to
degree.
Another clever woman who is just settling her
lares and penates in New York is Mrs Florence
Kelley Wischnewetsky, who u.s. in spite of her
suspiciously nihilistic name, daughter Of Judge
W. D. Kelley. of Pennsylvania, who has
brought back with her from four-years' stay at
the University of Zurich a Russian medical
student for husband, and, perhaps, by dint of
love or logic both, strong infusion of social
istc views.
Florence Kelley graduated from Cornell some
half-dozen years ago. a brlght-faced, enthx-
siastic girl, and went abroad to study political
economy, science that interests few women,
but lays strong hold on the handful it attracts.
She began the work of newspaper correspond
ent for q syndicate OF American journals al
most Immediately. and her sketches of the con-
dition OF the working women of Germany and
letters en- the rise and progress of tho Social
Democratic party in the German cities attracted
some little attention from the pres s.
Since her return to America Mrs. Wischnewet-
sky has been put in charge of a series Of pub
locations to be issued as the New York Labor
Library, and intended to supply economic litera-
tre to the working classes. translation of
DR.. Johann Jakobi's ''Obiect of the Labor
Movement" which came out in pamphlet form
ten days ago, is the first issue to appear, and
will be followed by original and translated mat
ter from her and from other hands. A more
ambitious effort Is a translation OF Engelss in
vestigation of the condition of the working
classes of Manchester which Lowell publishes
this week. Frederick Engels was a co-worker
with Karl Marx. and his book, which has never
yet had an English dress, is standard in the
German universities He has himself prepared
an appendix and preface to bring it down to
date and adapt it to American conditions, and
has taken throughout lively interest in his
feminine disciples work.
Mrs. Wischnewetsky has a mobile face that
speaks her thoughts before she utters them
She is a busy woman, full Of plans for future
work. and will bring quick wit and unusual
intelligence to the more radical side of the dis
cussion of the social topics OF the day.
DR.. Lucy NJ. Hall, the resident physician of
Vassar College, was one of the guests at tho an
nual dinner of Sorosis last week Dr. Hall is nor
burdened with undue concern at the evil prog
nostications of DR.. Withers Moore and Others Of
his ilk Two or three times within the mast war
/ have asked her of the health record Of ti;s
Young women in her care and the invarable re-
ply has been that it was excellent Last vxar
she tells me- she kept careful list from Nav
Years day TO December, tabulating every hour
lost by sickness py the girl students throughout
the school, When the twelve months were over
she compared her statistics with the CORRESPOND.
ing health tables of the young men at Amherss
only TO find the Vassar girls apprecab.y ia tho
lead The list of ailments in the girls college
was the shorter and the total number of DAYS
off duty looked small beside the figures OF the
supposedly, more robust men. Study does not
hurt the health. she says; the girls gain flesh and
color under the regimen of regular work and ths
stimulus Of wholesome mental drill